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These are as morally instructive in their way as the works of another, far greater sentimentalist, Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin . Quindlen's first novel, Object Lessons , is a coming-of-age story about the perils of letting others tell you what to do in life.
Because of that, I was surprised (and a little shocked) to find the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin referred to as “Miss” Stowe in Robert M. Sebastian's amusing article, “Red Pants.”
In the first chapter of Uncle Tom's Cabin , Miss Stowe offers a dialogue between Haley and Mr. Shelby, part of which goes, “ `Well,' said Haley, after they had both silently picked their nuts for a season, `what do you say?
They decided that the once-beloved social novel--Smiley's prime example is Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin --was a weepy, feminine waste of time.
Strangely enough, van Gogh was a passionate reader of Uncle Tom's Cabin ; we find him in 1880 reading Shakespeare and Dickens and "Beecher Stowe."